COM713 Communication in Practice (16)

CSU Discipline Area: Communication (COMUN)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

This subject explores the detailed practice of the student’s field, whether the construction of news stories or advertisements, the gestation of performance or the creation and dissemination of organisational communication, for example. The emphasis is on understanding how communication practice is organised and constructed, its points of similarity and divergence from comparable practices or similar societies, past or present. The focus here is on the individual or team producing the communicative or creative work.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations

Session 1
Distance	Bathurst
Session 2
Distance	Bathurst

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: COM713

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Available only to students in the Doctor of Communication

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

be able to compare and contrast practices over time or space
be able to critically evaluate assumptions about practice
be able to consider and apply a range of practices relevant to the student's research project, with rationale for selection
be able to identify shortcomings, developments, opportunities in current professional practice and suggest how student's research project would address such issues

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

Research methods for understanding professional practice, including participant observation and other ethnographic methods, as appropriate
The evolution of practice in the student's field, with critical examination of hidden assumptions
The relevance of selected practices for the student's research project

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